

He’s clearly still the worst and, if you play as him, you are by extension, also the worst. It’s been out in arcade format in Japan since 2015 and in the Eastern home market since 2016, but it will finally be gracing Western consoles and PCs this summer.Īre we feeling any better about Eddy Gordo this time? Let’s watch the reveal trailer and see. You were the worst, and everybody hated you.įast forward twenty years and – aside from all feeling rather old now – Eddy Gordo has just been confirmed for Tekken 7‘s Western release. Playing as Gordo was the ultimate dick move in Tekken 3 circles, a lazy player’s button-bashing dance of simplicity, virtually unplayable yet simultaneously requiring precisely zero skill and mastery of the game.Īnd if you didn’t see the problem with playing as Eddy Gordo, then we’re sorry to have to tell you this, but you were not good at Tekken 3. If you were good at Tekken 3, when Gordo first flailed his legs into Namco’s fighting series, then you never, ever played as the so-called Capoeira master. There’s another way you can look at that particular divide. There are two kinds of Tekken players in this world: those who played as Eddie Gordo, and those who complained about people who played as Eddy Gordo. Looking at Tekken 3 (figure 5.4), a game that is not abstract, consider the statement: ''Eddy Gordo is Brazilian and fights using the martial art of. Gord help us all, the worst ever Tekken character is back.
